Author: Steven Sahiounie

Ofer Cassif – a Knesset member representing the far-left, Arab-majority Hadash coalition – has expressed his support for this week’s hearing at the ICJ assessing South Africa ’s accusations of genocide against Israel. In a post on X, he accused the Israeli government of leading “ South Africa to turn to The Hague”. “My constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all of its residents, not to a government whose members and its coalition are calling for ethnic cleansing and even actual genocide,” he wrote. In October, Cassif was suspended by the Israeli parliament’s ethics panel after he compared Netanyahu’s…

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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has arrived in Israel ahead of her meetings with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Foreign Minister Israel Katz. While in Israel, she will also meet the families of Israeli captives held in Gaza. Baerbock wrote on X ahead of her trip that “the region must emerge from the eternal cycle of violence”. “To achieve this, Gaza must no longer pose a threat to Israel’s existence, Hamas must lay down its weapons and Hezbollah and Houthis must stop their bombing,” Minister said. Source: AlJazeera

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Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has been reporting live from Khan Younis in southern Gaza, providing updates to viewers across the Arab world on the latest developments in the enclave, as Israel’s bombardment continues. On Monday morning, Wael ’s son Hamza, who also worked with Al Jazeera, was one of two journalists killed in an Israeli strike on the car they were travelling in. Members of Wael’s family – including his wife Amna, another son, 15-year-old Mahmoud, his seven-year-old daughter Sham, and one-year-old grandchild Adam – were killed in an Israeli attack on the house they were staying in in…

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